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With both London games already sold out this season, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has visions of expanding the overseas schedule in the future.

Speaking at a New York University conference Tuesday, Goodell revealed that the NFL is planning to add a third London game each year. In fact, Goodell told the New York Post's Bart Hubbuch that there's a chance the Jacksonville Jaguars will begin playing two home games in London annually.

With both London games already sold out this season, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has visions of expanding the overseas schedule in the future.

Speaking at a New York University conference Tuesday, Goodell revealed that the NFL is planning to add a third London game each year. In fact, Goodell told the New York Post's Bart Hubbuch that there's a chance the Jacksonville Jaguars will begin playing two home games in London annually.

Welcome to the London Jaguars!

Attendance might be better and they who knows they may even win 3 or 4 games per year!

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If something is good then more is better, right? Well, not necessarily.

Although Jaguars tight end Marcedes Lewis thinks playing overseas in London against the San Francisco 49ers this season is “awesome,” he has some slight reservations when it comes to playing two games.

“That would be tough, Lewis told FOXSports.com Saturday at his annual youth football camp. “That would be real tough. That would be a lot of miles on our body. I’m sure it will be figured out, but personally I’m not for it. I guess it’s not my decision though.”

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell indicated earlier this month that he would like to see a franchise move overseas permanently. And an idea to play two games – a road and away game – at Wembley Stadium, which was suggested by Jaguars.com, could be a good barometer to measure fan interest.

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Owner Shad Khan and the Jaguars are only focused on the one game a year the NFL wants them to play in London the next four years.

However, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell recently said the league could ask the Jaguars to play two games a year in London. Khan said Wednesday in first public comments since Goodell suggested possible multiple London games that he is "going to cross that bridge when we get to it."

It's not so much European games. It's television deciding when games are being broadcast. Chelsea Man C looks like a Sunday game to me unfortunately but if it stays on as a Saturday game I think we will try to get tickets.

Have you fixed your travel arrangements yet? We're flying over early Saturday and back again Monday and our hotel is in Chelsea so Stamford Bridge is close by

I expect to go to London a week before the game. I hope to be able to locate the Hotel where the 9ers will be staying in order to get autographs. I follow several players on Twitter and I even have Quinton Patton to follow me so fingers crossed....

Tottenham will be playing Hull on Saturday and since London49ers is a Spurs fan I might have a game there

I am not finalizing any plans until I know when my usual "crew" will arrive as we expect to rent an apartment in Camden like last year. Most likely they arrive on Friday and we depart together on Monday morning

Led by the producers of Hard Knocks, a new Discovery Channel series aims to chronicle the 49ers’ journey to London this fall.The special, called “NFL in Season,” will follow the 49ers as they travel to Wembley Stadium to face the Jacksonville Jaguars on Oct. 27.(show airs at 10 p.m. PT on Nov. 1).)

We're both going to the game. Grid is already in London and I'm flying over early Saturday (I've been in Munich all week). I plan to go to the so called Fan Fest on Trafalgar Square to catch a glimpse of Joe Cool.

I'll try to post some pictures in the gallery here on the Dise next week.

Any team that plays entirely in London will have a hard time getting FA's I think. I've heard that some players say they'd rather retire than spend all that time traveling & acclimating. So that team may be a perennial bottom feeder.

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the League hold 8 games a year in London with 16 different teams playing per year

makes more sense to me & means Niners would play there every other year, and once every 4 years I would lose a local home game.

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"Show me a man with a sense of pride, and I'll show you a guy with limited options."

Even though the NFL is far more popular over here than most americans realize I do NOT believe the Jaguars would be embraced as a London team (not even if they were given favors to make them competitive ie extra cap space, draft choices)

I would never change my allegiance and most people I spoke to during the last week felt the same way.

In fact most of the brits are very surprised they keep adding games in London rather than looking at different venues in the UK or Germany.

I don't care for the Jags and quite frankly the match-ups in London have generally been way too dull. I seriously doubt I'm going back the next couple of years unless the niners are playing again. The games they bring to London are simply not interesting enough. I don't think teams are willing to give up home-field in key divisonal games so the only way to make the games better would be to get a team to be permanently based in London.

I doubt they ever put a franchise in Europe. They seem to talk about it a lot but the League doesn't even have a team in LA for goodness sake ! Maybe if one day somebody invents a transporter like we see in the Star Trek series, it would become feasible ? Maybe Canada or even Mexico but not Europe imho.